Routledge Race Place And Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina Struggles To Reclaim Rebuild And Revitalize New Orleans And The Gulf Coast Size 29 09780367097141
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On August 29 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws poor planning and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for mitigate respond to and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does race matter? Racial disparities exist in disaster response cleanup rebuilding reconstruction and recovery. Race plays out in natural disaster survivors' ability to rebuild replace infrastructure obtain loans and locate temporary and permanent housing. Generally low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing shelters trailers mobile homes and hotels - and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. Some 'temporary' homes have not proved to be that temporary. In exploring the geography of vulnerability this book asks why some communities get left behind economically spatially and physically before and after disasters strike. | Race Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina Struggles to Reclaim Rebuild and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Routledge Race Place And Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina Struggles To Reclaim Rebuild And Revitalize New Orleans And The Gulf Coast Size 29 09780367097141
On August 29 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws poor planning and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for mitigate respond to and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does race matter? Racial disparities exist in disaster response cleanup rebuilding reconstruction and recovery. Race plays out in natural disaster survivors' ability to rebuild replace infrastructure obtain loans and locate temporary and permanent housing. Generally low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing shelters trailers mobile homes and hotels - and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. Some 'temporary' homes have not proved to be that temporary. In exploring the geography of vulnerability this book asks why some communities get left behind economically spatially and physically before and after disasters strike. | Race Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina Struggles to Reclaim Rebuild and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
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